The University has evidently moved fast with millions to make it up to the three primary players who were indicted. However what are they going to do with the team they canceled, the coach they fired, or the faculty who got together to destroy the students falsely accused?

Will this "Gang of 88" apologize in the same manner as they accused? They demanded justice and then said specifically what their justice meant. They were wrong and are now not commenting..... probably because they've been told to shut up by the administration, but that doesn't slow them down when they feel like they're right about something.

I'm waiting for them to apologize publicly with the same force as they condemned without trial or hearing.

You know the answer to that. Of course not. These radical leftist are quick to talk about justice and equality when it suits them but have no notion that justice and equality before the law means that they themselves cannot rush to justice.

I for one hope that these players got a really nice pay day from Duke.

Quoting Flyorski (Reply 5):What university, and what "group of 88" is this?

A group of professors and other people affiliated with Duke University called themselves the Group of 88 and took out full page ad's in newspapers immediately after the arrest of the 3 lacross players who were indicited on rape charges. Those rape charges were eventually dismissed by the State's Attorney general after he took the case over from the local prosecuter who was accused of misconduct. The AG eventually declared the players "totally innocent" of the charges and the local district attorney was disbarred this past weekend.

The Group of 88 condemned the players without any knowledge of the facts and have now been very silent since they were exhonorated.

Quoting Flyorski (Reply 8):Very interesting, but I find it hard to imagin that they could blame people for a crime as serious as rape without any facts. Some people amaze me.

There is a giant rush to condemn a certain category of citizen here in this country for any crime of which they are accused of committing. The protected academic class which is generally unfettered by discretion or decency often takes it upon themselves to throw their "intellectual might and capital" behind whatever cause suits their hippie/socialist bent and doesn't always take little things like facts and due process into account.

I'm overgeneralizing....we're not talking about all professors or academics.....just most of the ones that get attention or media coverage. And seemingly by the lack of dissension most of the silent ones too.

Quoting Flyorski (Reply 8):Thanks for filling me in. Very interesting, but I find it hard to imagin that they could blame people for a crime as serious as rape without any facts. Some people amaze me.

The players were white and rich, the strippers were black and/or not rich. In some people little minds that formula results in the white kids automatically being guilty, how could it be otherwise? We will never know the whole truth, but what we do know is that there is nothing at all to even base questioning on, muchless levy charges.

Sometimes being white can really suck, those guys found that out the hard way.

Dont take life too seriously because you will never get out of it alive - Bugs Bunny

Just remember this saying: "There were no adults in charge" It applies to top management at Duke University for not offering this gang of 88 the option of publicly apologizing as loudly and vociferously as they trumpeted their charges, or joining their hero, Mike Nifong, in his new job as assistant bumper wiper at the famous Happy Bubbles car wash. I understand that Mikey was booted out of office today, since he wanted to stay in office until sometime in July.

That saying may also apply to any number of other situations where no logic prevails,

This topic came up on MSNBC last night. Dan Abrams brought a couple of the commentators on who'd condemned the lacrosse players initially. Susan Filan, an MSNBC legal analyst, apologized for the statements she made.

Will apologies solve anything? Not much, I don't think, we already know people are fallible--perhaps it'll make them think twice in the future, but the damage has already been done.

Are the accused Duke players filing any sort of lawsuit? This is a rare case where I think it's actually justified.

Speaking of Nancy Grace and CNN. Do you yanks get BBC world on regular cable down there? In my city BBC world is channel 28 and CNN is 29. It's amazing to compare the two. The differences are vast. BBC has real world news, has segments for all parts of the globe, flip to CNN and it's Nancy Grace screaming into the camera telling you if you let your kids play outside they'll die from something, or Larry King interviewing Judge Judy about the Paris Hilton story

Quoting Airfoilsguy (Reply 7):Quoting DL021 (Thread starter):Will this "Gang of 88" apologize in the same manner as they accused?
Sure they will when

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton stop being hypocrites.
The media researches their stories before throwing them out to the world.
Pigs fly
Hell freezes over

Quoting DL021 (Reply 10):Quoting Flyorski (Reply 8):Very interesting, but I find it hard to imagin that they could blame people for a crime as serious as rape without any facts. Some people amaze me.
There is a giant rush to condemn a certain category of citizen here in this country for any crime of which they are accused of committing. The protected academic class which is generally unfettered by discretion or decency often takes it upon themselves to throw their "intellectual might and capital" behind whatever cause suits their hippie/socialist bent and doesn't always take little things like facts and due process into account.

I wonder how many of those professors were on the law faculty. They must be really embarrassed.

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain, a Biography